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Collaboration Experimentation

Centre for Experimental Social Sciences

CESS Nuffield - FLAME University

INTRODUCTION

CESS Nuffield – FLAME University is a collaboration between Nuffield College in the University of Oxford and FLAME University designed to conduct and promote lab and lab-in-the-field experiments in India. Nuffield College in the University of Oxford started its own Centre for Experimental Social Sciences in 2008 and now works with universities in India and Chile to facilitate experiments with international subject pools.

At FLAME University, the Centre pursues three objectives:1. Conducting social science experiments and publishing the knowledge created;2. Building an international research community by partnering with academics working in the US, Europe, and elsewhere;3. Promoting social-science experimentation in India.

The lab features 30 2-in-1 Dell Laptop Tablets, used for mobile as well as lab experiments. These infrastructure has a similar interactive feel as the CESS labs in Oxford and Santiago, Chile. Based in Pune, India’s university town, we have access to students at 12 local universities.

A unique feature of CESS Nuffield – FLAME University is our capacity to run high-quality lab-in-the-field experiments in a wide array of settings in India with diverse subject pools. We aim to work with non-student subject pools such as people living in tribal villages and low-income housing, school teachers and principals, factory workers, working women, laborers, and construction workers. This mobile lab allows researchers to move closer to policy-relevant questions by studying subjects who face the researcher’s question of interest in normal life, along with games designed to mimic the context in which they make decisions.

While the Centre welcomes proposals to use the lab for academic research on any topic and from any social science (or related field), we are particularly interested in the following: cooperation, trust, behavior change, behavioral economics, and law & economics.

We also encourage researchers with an interest in running lab-in-the-field studies in applied policy contexts such as gender and competition, water and sanitation, health and nutrition, policing, and livelihoods. If you are interested in conducting experiments at our Centre, you can find out more information on our Researchers page.

ReCENT research Events

Dr. Hem Dholakia, Council on Energy, Environment and Water

"Powering Healthcare using Solar Energy." May 2018.

Dr. Francois Lafond, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School

"Classification Volatility as an Indicator of Radical Innovation." April 2018.

Dr. Stefania Innocenti, St. Peter’s College - University of Oxford

"Self-efficacy Beliefs and Imitation: A Two-armed Bandit Experiment." April 2018.

Prof. Johannes Johnen, Université catholique de Louvain

"Browsing versus Studying: A Pro-Market Case for Regulation." April 2018.